Heat, heat and more heat!!

[Mohuska]

Another WCC owner. Seems we have our share of overheating problems. I have owned my WCC along time and have never been able to get rid of overheating issues. I am taking back to engine builder this next week to make some changes and will try to tackle overheating issues.

I see that this thread is several months old. I would really like to hear of some successes in taming the heating problems.

[SoTxButler]

A friend of mine with a WCC has the same overheating problems. His has AC and it appears the fan is mounted too far away from the radiator. He is going to mount it closer but has not done so yet. It should be mounted as close as possible but no further than 3/8" to 1/2" at most...the closer the better.

How close is your fan to the radiator?

[DocDirk]

Yep thanks, the fan is quite close to the radiator, about 1/2". I finally installed the 45 amp 3500+ CFM monster fan into the shroud and put on a variable thermostatic sensor to trigger the fan, set it at 160 degrees for now and the car runs 195 degrees fully warmed up this summer in 90-100F ambient most all of the time, and that takes about half an hour of driving to achieve. I might push the fan trigger up to 180. Heats up to 200F in temperatures over 100F ambient, but that's also not a superfun time of day to be cruising anyhow. Did hit 215 on a 107F day in town, but then what a loon I was to take it out then LOL, I think I too hit 107 by that time! It will run 180-185 on a cooler day, say 80F degrees ambient.

Come to think of it, I reread this thread and never did fully open my heater core to be sure it doesn't contain trapped air that might enter the system at some time. I'll do it.

This winter I'm going to front-shroud the radiator for perhaps a bit more cooling air entry.

Regards and thanks!

Dirk